Unranked Miami beat visiting No. 10 Georgia Tech in four in the ACC.
Unranked Kansas State won at No. 25 Iowa State in the Big 12.
There’s a three-way atop the Big Ten after Ohio State thumped Northwestern. Also in the B1G, Rutgers snapped its 10-match skid by beating Iowa, its first conference sweep since 2019.
Yale had to rally to beat Penn and stay unbeaten in the Ivy League, but Loyola is no longer unbeaten in the Atlantic 10 after losing to Dayton.
Normally the DI line of the night would go to Miëtte Veldman of James Madison, who had 30 kills in a five-set Sun Belt victory at Marshall. She had three errors in 50 attacks and hit .540 to go with two assists, an ace, 16 digs and two blocks, one solo.
But Youngstown State’s Paula Gursching did it again: The German outside had 31 kills as the Penguins won their fifth in a row, a four-set Horizon League victory at Robert Morris. Gursching had nine errors in 70 attacks to hit .314 and added an assist, two aces, two blocks and 10 digs. Her 31 kills and 70 attacks are both four-set school records.
And we normally don’t include Division II, but Barry College took over first place in the Sunshine State Conference when the Buccaneers beat Tampa in five and Diana Akopova set the school record with 42 kills. Akopova, a sophomore outside hitter from Mozdock, Russia, transferred to Barry when her coach, Leonid Yellin, left upstate New York for the Florida school. Akopova had nine errors in 96 attacks to hit .344.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at the key matches in NCAA Division I volleyball on Saturday.
Second-ranked San Diego has a West Coast Conference match at San Francisco. Also in the WCC, No. 18 BYU is at Santa Clara, Pepperdine is at Pacific, Loyola Marymount is at Saint Mary’s and Gonzaga is at Portland.
Sixth-ranked Ohio State is at Michigan State in the only Big Ten match.
There are three Big 12 matches as No. 11 Baylor plays host to Kansas, TCU goes to Texas Tech and Oklahoma is at West Virginia.
No. 17 Marquette plays a Big East match against Villanova.
The SEC has four matches, including Ole Miss at South Carolina, Mississippi State at Alabama, LSU at Tennessee and Texas A&M at Auburn.
Something has to give in the WAC where the teams tied for first play when UTRGV goes to Utah Valley.
The top two teams in the MAAC square off when first-placce Fairfield goes to Iona.
Among the teams putting their unbeaten conference records on the line…
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